Highlighting Supervision

This guide is designed to help supervisors based in organisations outside of higher education, navigate the specific challenges they face whilst supervising doctoral candidates

The 6th Edition of the essential Research Supervisor’s Bibliography contains the key references in the literature on research supervision.

A bibliography of available research into doctoral supervision at a distance

Traditionally doctoral candidates studied on campus and, fieldwork apart, were in close proximity to supervisors throughout their studies. But in recent years there has been a rapid growth in the numbers of students undertaking most of their studies off-‐campus, often at a very considerable distance from the institution